Whiffletree-hook.



No. 630,836. Patented Aug. l5, I899.

H. H. ALLEN.

WHIFFLETREE HOOK.

(pplica'tionjled June 28, 1899-) (No Model.)

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT H. ALLEN, OF BROOKSVILLE, FLORIDA.

WHIFFLETREE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 630,836, dated August15, 1899.

Application filed June 28,1899- Serial No. 722,154. (No model.)

, ence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements inwhiffietree-hooks, and especially to a hook which is adapted to be held7 to the end of the whiffletree, means being provided whereby the hookmay be held from slipping on the whiffletree, and composed of twopieces, the ends of which are adapted to be locked together when thedevice is adjusted in" place.

More specifically, the invention consists in a whiffletree-hook made upof two complemental sections which are pivoted together each sectionhaving a hooked portion and a semicircular whiffletree-engaging shankportion having on its inner concaved margin an integral lug which isadapted to engage in the whiffletree, while the ends of the portionswhich surround the whiffletree are designed to be held together by meansof a suitable locking-key, thus preventing the sections forming thewhiffletree hook from sliding upon the whiftletree.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain the sameconsists in the novel construction, combination, and adaptation ofparts, as will be hereinafter more clearly described and thenspecifically defined in the appendedclaims.

Hy invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which,with the letters of reference marked thereon, form part of thisapplication, and in which drawings-- Figure l is a perspective view ofmy whiffietree-hook shown as open or the two parts adjusted in positionto be slipped over the end of the whiffletree, and Fig. 2 is a viewshowing the two complemental parts forming the whiffietree-hook aslocked together.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A Adesignate two complemental portions of the whiffletreehook, which havethe hooked ends A preferably fiat on their adjacent faces and oval orrounding on their outer faces and are pivoted together at B. The shankportions or hooks are bent in the shape shown and are preferably ofcircular outline and have on their concaved edges the integral lugs G,which are diametrically opposite each other, while the outer free endsof said shank portions are bent at right angles, as at D, and haveapertures D, through which a key E is designed to be held in order tolock the free ends of said shank portions together or in such positionthat the lugs carried by the shank portions or hook-sections will engagein the whiffletree'.

From the foregoing, when taken in connection with the drawings formingpart of this application, it will be noted that the whiffletreehookconstructed as shownand described when adjusted to a whifiietree andlocked thereto will'not slide, but will be positively held in a fixedposition.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, anddesire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A whiffletree-hook, comprising in combination with the whiffletree,two complemental hook-sections pivoted together, and having lugs, whichare designed to engage in holes in the whiffletree, and means forholding the hooked sections so that such lugs will be held in engagementwith the whiffletree, as set forth.

2. In combination with the whiffletree, two complementalwhiftletree-hook sections piV- oted together, their shank portions beingin circular outline, and having integral lugs diametrically oppositeeach other, the outer ends of said shank-sections being bent at rightangles, and apertured, and a key designed to fit in said aperture, asshown and described. I

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERBERT H. ALLEN;

IVitnesses:

A. B. WHELPLEY, G. V. RAMSEY.

